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[Logbook of the Seneca (Bark) of New Bedford, Mass., mastered by Edmund Kelley, kept and signed by first mate George Duffy, on voyage October 16, 1869-September 14, 1871]

by: Seneca (Bark)

Publication date: 1869
Topics: Kelley, Edmund, Loum Snow & Son (New Bedford, Mass.), Indigenous peoples, Marine accidents, Punishment, Rescues, Seafaring life, Ships, Abandoning of, Shipwrecks, Voyages and travels, Walrus, Whalers (Persons), Whaling--Massachusetts--New Bedford, Whaling masters, Whales, Women and the sea, Arctic Ocean--Description and travel, Atlantic Ocean--Description and travel, Faial Island (Azores)--Description and travel, Hawaii--Description and travel, Okhotsk, Sea of--Description and travel, Pacific Ocean--Description and travel, Point Hope (Alaska)--Description and travel, Prince of Wales, Cape (Alaska)--Description and travel, Crew lists, Journals (accounts), Logbooks, Loum Snow
Collection: newbedfordwhalingmuseumlogbooksandjournals; newbedfordwhalingmuseum; americana
Contributor: New Bedford Whaling Museum
Language: English
Item Size: 590.4M

Log/journal, kept and signed by first mate George Duffy, relating to whaling voyages to the Okhotsk Sea and the Arctic, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans; 1869 Oct. 16-1871 Sept. 14; Includes detailed description of the loss and abandonment of this and 32 other ships and the rescue of about 1200 persons without a loss of life. Also includes descriptions of types of whales or walrusses seen, accidents at sea, shipwrecks, women and children on ships, indigenous peoples, punishment on ship, and rescues, and a crew list. Other

In the collection of the New Bedford Whaling Museum Research Library